An ambitious actor (Frankie Vaughan) comes to Los Angeles to break into the movies. He shares a house in the hills with his brother (Steve Harris) and four other bachelors (Gary Crosby, David McLean, Robert Casper, Paul Von Schreiber) and uses each of them in his rise to fame. Based on the play THE WAY WE LIVE by Garson Kanin and directed by David Butler (WHERE'S CHARLEY?). Frankie Vaughan was a big pop star in England and 20th Century Fox imported him for the Marilyn Monroe film LET'S MAKE LOVE (1960) and tried to make him a star in the U.S. The Monroe movie did nothing for him and neither did this film, so Fox sent him packing back to the U.K. I don't know why Fox thought this film in which Vaughan plays an unpleasant phony who uses men and women to climb to the top would make him a star. He exudes nothing that would suggest he could be a movie star and despite his hit records in the U.K., none of his records charted here in the States. In fact, none of the males in the film show much personality. Fortunately, Juliet Prowse as a gold digging waitress and Martha Hyer as a magazine editor do have a screen presence that partially compensates for the male ciphers. With Jane Withers and Jesse White.
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